Hello everyone and all, Melody here with a new chapter. I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. This chapter will be the intro into the actual series finally. After nine prologue type chapters it's finally happening, guess I kept y'all waiting. Now, a little disclaimer. I was originally going to have Emerald be at Atlas, and Mercury at Beacon. I've decided against this and I'll be setting both groups at Beacon so I don't tear my hair out. Also the outfits Emerald and Mercury wear are just like the ones from the show with slight modifications. Anyway, let's get to it!

Sincerely, Melody

Normal P.O.V.

The past five and a half years had been some of the best she had in Emerald's opinion but she felt like everything was going to be weird now. She had been with Six since she was 12 so leaving her older brother behind in Atlas felt strange. Currently she sat on a Bullhead which was taking potential Beacon students from Atlas to Vale, with her were Fianna and Lothur. Honestly, she was relieved that those two also chose Beacon over Atlas because without them she wouldn't know what to do. Lothur was sleeping on their bags while Fianna sat while texting Vivian on her scroll. Emerald would've been texting Six and letting him know how everything was going but he had been busy the past couple of days as she made her way to Vale. Around three years ago he was made a Specialist in the military and now had to attend meetings and such with Flynn regularly. Luckily though, the duo were able to see them off the other morning along with Fianna's grandmother.

Her nerves were getting to her but she knew that soon they'd be landing and they'd be starting their education sooner. Patting the revolver on her hip, Emerald smiled as she calmed down somewhat. The first pair of revolvers Six had made were at her hips hanging from beat up leather holsters. They weren't fancy like the ones she had made herself but the simplicity in their design were comforting in a strange way. The pair looked similar to Six's Mysterious Magnum but chambered to be a .357 rather than a .44. Over her usual outfit was a sleeveless dark green duster with a large emerald emblazoned on the back. Six had given her the duster before she boarded the Bullhead and she hadn't taken it off since.

Outside the window she was able to see the Tower of Beacon in all of its glory which caused her to move over and shake Lothur awake. He let out a growl as he rolled over on the bags, slapping Emerald in the face with his tail in the process. Annoyed by him, she lifted her foot and kicked him off the bags. With a heavy thud and a yelp, Lothur shot up with a glare as he towered over her.

"Oi!" He exclaimed as he crossed his arms and hardened his glare. "Why'd you do that?" Emerald silently pointed out the window which caused him to look over. "Oh… We're here, why didn't you try to shake me awake?"

"She did, you just wouldn't wake up." Fianna answered as she stood up and put her scroll away. Even though she was shorter than the two, she was easily able to get and hold their attention. "Lothur could you carry the heavier bags for us?"

"Oh come on! Your bag weighs sixty pounds, mine weighs eighty, and Emerald's weighs another sixty. Then there's our weapons, you don't expect me to carry everything do ya?" He questioned which just got an impish grin from the black eyed girl. "Fuck you Fianna." He muttered quietly as he started to collect the bags.

Emerald and Fianna looked at each other and after a minute they started to laugh heavily which caused Lothur to join in. Eventually they got their own bags and started to make their way to the exit. As they walked by they saw a hologram of the Headmistress of Beacon discussing some stuff about the school which caused them to take pause before getting off the Bullhead once it was docked. Stepping off they saw a large amount of returning and new students walking around with bags and weapons at their sides. Looking around they were honestly amazed by all of the people there. Taking a deep breath, the trio started to make their way through the crowds and towards the auditorium.

The sounds of aws and barking drew the trio's attention as they looked over to the side. They saw a blonde girl with three dogs around her. The pups looked like mutts and happily barked as they were showered with attention while the girl laughed and talked to some of the people around her. Her outfit was also eye-catching for the male students; It consisted of a white crop-top vest with black shoulder pads and a red stripe going up each arm, thick leather gloves, white pants with a red stripe going up each leg, a large black belt, and thigh high boots. Hanging off of a strap on her back was a strange looking rifle.

Off to the side stood Mercury with his hands in his pockets and a bored, yet observant, expression. Occasionally people would shoot him a glance but quickly grew bored of the grey haired teen. He didn't care though as one of the pups ran over to him. Smirking he knelt down and started to pet the mutt. A studded grey collar held a dog tag that read Zeus rattled as Mercury pet him. Feeling the hairs of the back of his neck stand up, he looked up and saw Emerald staring at him. He simply raised his eyebrow to her which caused her to quickly look away and catch up with her friends.

"Oh, Zeus is with you!" Sally exclaimed as she ran over to him with Dogmeat and the other pup, Jupiter, at her heels.

"Of course he is, he's my good boy you know." He replied as he stood up with Zeus looking alert. "Come on, let's get to the auditorium. Ozpin said there was a big announcement." He said then started to walk to the building.

"Uh-huh!" Sally replied and followed behind him with the pups.

Shortly before noon the auditorium was filled with all of the potential students and standing on the stage were all of the professors. Sally and Mercury noticed something different though with the professors; Leon stood with them with his usual bored expression. Their eyes went wide once they saw him. The last time they saw him was around six months ago when he and Amber were visiting Ozpin, well, Amber visited Ozpin; Leon went down to Juniors' club to meet up with the man for a drink and to talk to Torchwick.

After Ozpin finished his little 'speech', Glynda spoke up. "Before I tell you where you all will be staying for the evening, I am happy to announce Beacon's first Faunus Professor. Everyone please give a round of applause for our new biology Professor Leon Rivers. He's informed me he has a few things he'd like to say to you all." With that, she stepped away from the podium as the applause filled the room.

Leon walked over to the podium as he lit a cigarette which caused people to gasp, and then he spoke up. "I don't have much to say at the moment other than I am happy to've been accepted as a teacher here at Beacon. I'd say I'm thrilled for the new year, which I am, but there is something I really want to say. I will not tolerate any form of racism. If you have comments, you best keep them to yourself and be quiet because no one gives a damn about the bullshit you have to say." He said then walked off the stage leaving the crowd in stunned silence. Glynda quickly ran over to the podium to apologize and tell the students where to go for the night.

"I think he'll be my favourite teacher." Yang finally spoke up after a few moments of silence which caused Ruby, Weiss, and Jaune to shoot her weird looks. "What?"

"Well…" Ruby started then told her sister of their encounter with the teacher.

Earlier in the Beacon courtyard, Weiss looked up in surprise and anger at the man holding her arm up with one hand, and her vial of dust in the other. The dark skinned man glared at her with his lone, piercing, cold blue eye; His left eye had a grey eyepatch covering it. He was dressed like a doctor but had a lit cigarette hanging from his lips which were in the form of a scowl.

Yanking her arm away, she turned and shoved her finger in his face. "Who do you think you are!? Do you know who I am?! Also you're on a school campus! You shouldn't be smoking!" She yelled, her anger and annoyance from Ruby overwhelming her senses temporarily.

Looking at her, he simply blew smoke in her face which caused her to recoil and cough. "To answer your first question," He started as he inhaled more smoke. "My name is Leon Rivers but you can call me Professor Rivers. I teach biology." He stated and let out another cloud. "Second, you're Weiss Schnee. Don't think I'm going to give you special treatment because of your family. Frankly, I find most of the stuff your family has done to've been deplorable and I personally hate your dad with a passion cause of the shit he's done; So throw that shit around to someone who cares. Finally, I'm a teacher and Ozpin gave me the okay as long as I don't throw my buds on the ground so I can smoke here as much as I damn well please." He finished and inhaled another puff of smoke. "So Ms. Schnee, have anything to say for yourself?"

Weiss' eyes widened as a look of horror dawned on her face. Place her hands together, she started to speak. "I am so sorry I didn't know you were a teacher here! You kind of look like a school nurse!" She profusely apologized, fearing being potentially expelled before she even made it in.

"Auditorium, go there now and wait for Ozpin's speech. Now," He ordered which she listened to promptly. Ruby looked as if she was about to say something until Leon looked at her and froze her in place with his gaze. "You,"

"Y-yes?" Ruby replied warily.

"Pay attention to where you're walking, we don't need something blowing up the courtyard because someone is off in lalaland." He told her seriously before looking away and starting to walk off. "Now start making your way to the auditorium." He ordered as he finally let out the cloud of smoke he was holding in.

"Y-yes sir!" Ruby called to him before running off towards the auditorium.

Jaune and Blake stood off to the side in stunned silence. Jaune was simply baffled by how Leon acted and Blake having heard Leon's name while she was in the White Fang. The man was practically a myth to them, he had supposedly killed some of the more radical members in the past by draining all of the blood from their bodies as a message; Blake wasn't sure if it was true but seeing him made her believe it was possible. Ozpin didn't mention anything about him while they were discussing her entrance into Beacon but she had a feeling he already knew about some of the stuff Leon had done. Roaring laughter and heavy thuds pulled their attention away though as they saw a dark haired girl and boy, resting their arms on each other so they wouldn't fall over.

The boy was tall with black scales over his arms and dark armour with a bright blue core in the chest piece cladding his body. The girl on the other hand wore a crop top and high waisted jeans unbuttoned, only being held up by a large belt with a giant, golden belt buckle. A runt-sack was at each of their feet along with weapon cases.

"Oh god Drakon, that was honestly one of the greatest things I've ever seen. The fact it happened to a Schnee made it even better." The girl said as her laughter died down and she finally opened her eyes. Strange thing about her eyes though were the spirals in her iris'.

"Agreed Mindy, that was great." The boy, Drakon replied as he stood to his full height. "Hopefully we can see that more in the future." He said as he picked up his bags.

Mindy smiled widely and her tongue flicked out of her mouth, similar to a serpents'. "I feel like we will." She said with a slight hiss afterwards.

Jaune simply stared as the duo walked off and spoke up. "Do you know them?" He asked what he thought was Blake but when he turned to see no one was there. "Where did she go?" He asked no one in particular before shaking his head and making his way to the auditorium.

Yang just stared at the trio wide-eyed. "Are you three serious?" Which the trio nodded in response. "Well then…" She said as she scratched the back of her head. "I guess he might suck then." Hearing that caused Sally to gasp loudly which caused the group to look over to her and Mercury.

"I am so sorry about that!" She exclaimed as she walked over to them while putting her hands together in an apologetic way. "He usually isn't like that I swear, he just doesn't sleep a lot and when he doesn't sleep he can be pretty grumpy." She explained hurriedly. "Is there anything I can do to make it up to you guys?"

Weiss simply raised her eyebrow. "How do you know that scoundrel?"

Sally chuckled awkwardly as she parted her hands and scratched the back of her head. A vein bulged from her forehead as she spoke. "He's my adopted dad so could you please not call him a scoundrel? It's kind of rude."

"Sorry to hear he adopted you. Maybe you can teach him some manners and I'll consider not calling him that." Weiss replied with a hmph.

Mercury looked over to Sally and started to laugh. "Oh you just woke up a demon, Ice Queen. Have fun."

Sally's face was now seething as she glared at the heiress. "Alright you snotty, snobby, spoiled, rich bitch! How about you learn some goddamn manners?! You have enough money so you could pay someone to fucking teach you!" She growled out which took Weiss, Ruby, and Jaune aback while Yang and Mercury laughed.

Weiss glared at her as she readjusted herself. "Who gave you the right to judge me?!" She shot back.

"Who the fuck gave you the right to judge my adopted dad when you were swinging Dust around like an idiot and he stopped you!? Seriously! You're getting pissed off because you fucked something up and he made sure no one was injured! Are you five!? Grow the fuck up!" Sally all but screamed which caused a huge argument between her and Weiss while Yang, Ruby, and Jaune slipped away.

The argument drew the attention of some of the professors, specifically Leon and Glynda.

"I assume anger issues run in the family? She hasn't done anything like that in the past few years." Glynda asked, clearly annoyed, Leon who shook his head.

"Not quite sure, I never met her parents. She's heard my outbursts though so that might be where she picked it up." He explained as he scratched his chin.

"Well, I'll deal with this. I can't expect you to remain unbiased in this situation. Also, you can't smoke in here. I know what Ozpin said but this is the auditorium." She said with an exasperated sigh as she went and broke up the argument.

"Good idea." He replied and put out his cigarette. Looking to his left he saw Mercury walking over. "Hey kid, how've you been?"

Mercury shrugged. "Better more or less. Why didn't you mention you were starting as a teacher here? Sally will probably be upset when she asks about it."

"Well, I can't say really. Ozpin just offered the job, that's the most I can say." Leon explained then looked over to see the situation slowly diminishing. Sally didn't look as angry now which put a small smile on his face. "Good luck tomorrow Merc."

"Thanks Leon." Mercury replied and smiled slightly.

"Leon!" Sally yelled as she ran over and tackled him with a hug.

Letting out a gasp and a cough as he was knocked to the ground. "Hey kid." He replied as he loosely hugged her. Looking up he saw Glynda walking over to them.

"Make sure you don't have another outburst like that again Ms. Skyfire." She sternly said as she glared down at the pair.

Giving her a thumbs up, Sally got to her feet. "Again, I'm sorry about that." She said sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head.

"Good, now I'll leave you three alone. Don't forget you're sleeping in the ballroom tonight." Glynda told her then walked off, going to Ozpin's office to discuss the next day's initiation.

Standing up and looking at his Pipboy, Leon looked to Mercury and Sally. "We have a few hours, do you guys wanna go get lunch? We need to catch up." He asked which got a nod in response from the two.

Far away from Beacon, in a remote part of Vale's wilderness a camp was being sat up. Pitching a tent was an older Six with Gilford. Around his eyes were small wrinkles and his goatee had grown to a grizzly adams beard. He was wearing his old snake skin boots and a long duster over his ballistic vest. Emblazoned on the back was an Old World flag with a 21 in a spade replacing the star. Over sitting at a radio was Flynn who was talking with some people on the other end.

Setting up another tent was Porifio and Erwin, Meonquanee was starting a fire to cook up some lunch. There were a couple of other soldiers there but Six didn't know their names. The two young men were new to their division. In the past few years, Flynn's team had been practically promoted to Specialists in regards to the Bonepickers. A few days prior Six and Flynn had been called into Ironwood's office.

The Vale government had been getting reports that the Bonepickers were kidnapping people in villages around the city and even a couple of people from Vale itself. Requesting the assistance of Atlas, Ironwood sent Flynn's team to deal with the problem and investigate where the group was hiding out. The group had arrived the day prior in Vale and set off almost instantly.

Currently they were a couple of miles outside of a village known as Evergreen that had been hit hard by the Bonepickers. The group had decided they'd go undercover and pose as two teams of huntsmen passing through the area. Their camp would of course be their base for the foreseeable future.

As he lifted another post, Six looked over to Erwin who offered him a smile. Within the past year and a half the pair had started a small relationship. The rest of the team knew but the two were still quiet about it. Most people gave the pair strange looks; One was a Faunus while the other was a Cyborg but they generally ignored what others thought. During that time though Erwin became the third person on Remnant to know of Six's origins. At first she thought he was joking, then insane but eventually with the help of Emerald and Flynn Six was able to convince her.

Gilford elbowed Six a bit and chuckled when the Courier went back to what they were doing quickly; His cheeks slightly reddened. They finished putting the tent up about fifteen minutes later, then Six went to help Meonquanee with the cooking. The quiet woman simply nodded to him as he started to cut some vegetables. Their attention was pulled away though when they could hear Flynn nearly shouting into the radio mic.

"What do you mean you can't send anyone to assist us if we encounter the Bonepickers?" He practically growled into the mic. After a couple moments of silence from their captain, he spoke once more. "Then don't tell us in the first place that you'll give us reinforcements." He said then hung the radio up.

"Fuckin' christ. Ya'd expect'em to keep to their word ya know?" Six commented as he went back to cutting carrots.

"Yep." Meonquanee replied curtly as she went back to work.

They finished preparing their ingredients within ten minutes then Meonquanee started to cook. Six offered to help but was quickly refused; Most of the team didn't trust his sense of taste given how he liked to eat 'weird' things. If it wasn't expired yet then it was good to eat in Six's eyes. Of course though, seeing him eat month old chips and stuff of that nature didn't really make the others agree.

Soon the sun hung low in the sky and the rest of the team started to get to work. That night Six and Gilford would stand guard at the camp while Erwin and Meonquanee would go to Evergreen. Six sat at one side of the camp with Dinnerbell at the ready while Gilford sat at the other end with Dirgesinger. The night seemed like it would be a quiet one.

Leon's P.O.V.

As I stepped out of the small noodle shop with Emerald and Mercury in tow, we talked some but were mostly silent. Making our way to the Bullhead docks I bumped into an older woman with short brown-black hair; Parts of it were greying. While she stayed standing, of course my luck be damned, I fell over.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that." She said as she offered me her hand. I offered mine and she helped me up but once I was to my feet she wouldn't let go.

"Um thanks but you don't have to hold onto me." I said as I attempted to rip my arm away from her.

"I have a question for you." She spoke up and I noticed two men behind her. One was a dark skinned man with dreaded hair while the other was a white guy with blonde hair.

"Yeah? What?" I replied as I finally ripped away from her iron grasp.

She took a deep breath then pointed at my Pipboy. "Where'd you get that? An old friend of ours has one that looks just like it and we've been looking for him for a while." She asked which caused me to gasp slightly but I hid it.

"It was a gift from my tenth birthday. And no, I don't know anyone with something like this." I lied then looked back at Sally and Mercury. "Let's get going kids. I gotta get you two back to Beacon before Glynda realises I took you guys down here the day before initiation." I ordered and quickly started to walk away from the suspicious group.

Normal P.O.V.

The trio watched as Leon, Mercury, and Sally quickly ran off towards the Bullhead docks. The woman looked towards the two men and sighed.

"Seems like those rumours weren't true." The woman spoke up, somber in her tone.

"Don't worry Veronica. We'll find him eventually." The blond man said as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.

"Thanks Arcade." She replied as she smiled at the doctor.

The dark skinned man just started to walk off. "Let's get back to the hotel. I'll call Carmine to let her know we didn't find him." He said as he walked away.

"Got it Ulysses." Arcade replied as he and Veronica started to follow after the other Courier.

And that's the chapter. I hit a bit of writer's block with this one and I wanted to include Beacon's initiation in this chapter but that'll have to be the next one. Before we get to the review, yes Sally is wearing the Nuka-Girl suit from Nuka-world. It just seemed fitting cause space ya know? Anyway onto the review.

ILikeHotDogs: It's going good, glad you liked the chapter and I'll try to keep it up.

Now like I always say, please leave a review because I love to read what y'all think. The next chapter should be out in about a week or so. Anyway, have a good morning, evening, day, etc.